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It can be surely said that the rejuvenation of modern Kannada literature started during the regime of Krishnaraja Wodeyar III. The mahārāja offered shelter and patronage to several vidvāns (scholars). The scholars in his court—i.e. āsthāna-vidvāns—rendered their service to literature by translating into Kannada great works like Rāmāyaṇa, Mahābhārata, Bhāgavata, and other devotional texts (bhakti sahitya).